At the end of part ii of this module, the students should have a broader understanding of the impacts of war, one that goes beyond immediate battlefield deaths and injuries. More than 19,000 people died and tens of thousands more fled as radiation belched from the world’s worst nuclear accident since chernobyl. A decade later, large swaths of land remain. From health monitoring to property remediation and legal action,. Japanese safety officials are maintaining that the newly found contamination — highly radioactive water in tunnels outside the plant, plutonium in nearby soil samples and spikes in levels of.
These might include memory problems, difficulty with complex tasks,. Numerous adverse effects were observed mainly in high exposure areas within about 30 km from the reactor. Increased mortality of coniferous plants, soil invertebrates,.
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